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Resolving

By alex | Published: 1/2/2004
In Japan, the end of the year is celebrated with a chain of bonenkai, or “forgetting the year parties”; institutionalized forgetting, replete with alcohol: a long-favored technology of forgetting. Rather than publicly rehash my extravagant and largely unrealized resolutions of last year (they are in the archives), I am going to go against one of […]
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I am Tesla

By alex | Published: 12/9/2003
Which historical madman were you? Which Historical Lunatic Are You?From the fecund loins of Rum and Monkey. Precisely. Tesla and Britany Spears were the two mascots of the comm theory class this semester.
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Like wheat

By alex | Published: 11/27/2003
My mother’s dissertation was published as one of the first ebooks from Columbia University Press. It is called Like Wheat to the Miller: Community, Convivencia, and the Construction of Morisco Identity in Sixteenth-Century Aragon. A recent review in the American Historical Review has this to say: The title of Mary Halavais’s impressive first book refers […]
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Spam hurts enhansement’s rep

By alex | Published: 11/25/2003
Mackay said such firms gave a bad name to the penis enhancement business. – CNN.com – Male enlargement ads prompt spam rage – Nov. 24, 2003 Does this need further comment?
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